I was fairly new to WP when a client asked me to develop a site for them that allowed them to quickly and easily publish content that would complement their print publication. WP seemed to fit the bill and we were quickly up and running. After launch they began receiving an insane amount of spam comments and as admin to the site, I received all of those in my email, often as many as 100 a day. Long story short, after 30 seconds of research I learned about Akismet and put it in place in July of 2009. A year later, they receive 1,000 unique IP visitors daily and not one spam comment has gotten through. Your plugin is unbelieva-easy to install and activate and it just plain works. I don’t know what voo-doo magic you use but keep up the good work. Akismet rules.

Without Akismet blogging would suck! Spammers are determined to infest my site and I rest every day knowing that Akismet is working equally hard to prevent them from succeeding. I previously spent most of my day cleaning out bogus comments that are now intercepted by Akismet with unprecedented accuracy.

My blog has been guarded by Akismet since its inception half a year ago, and I have never had any problem with spam whatsoever — originally one of my main concerns about starting a website. It’s amazingly effective, precise, and easy to use.

Do I appreciate Akismet? Do I appreciate Akismet!?!?! I wouldn’t blog without it! I remember “the dark ages” before Akismet, when I had to deal with spam on a constant basis and checking my blog was an annoyance because of it.

Great job on this guys, I can’t tell you how much i’ve enjoyed having it for the past few years.

I have been blogging for several years, and at first was shocked at the amount of spam that hit the site. After installing Askimet the amount I had to deal with myself slowed to a trickle. I still get the occasional spam slipping through, but no more than one a week or less, which is a great track record.

Akismet is absolutely wonderful! I’ve been using it on my primary blog for several years and it caught hundreds of thousands of SPAM comments without throwing away anything valuable. This is a really good example of technology to follow – it solves a major problem without ever being in your way. I wish we had more solutions like this. No tweaking, no fooling around – just install, activate, and enjoy. It must have saved a whole life time or two by now.

I’ve been using Akismet since early spring, and it has already stopped more than 500 spam comments. Thank you so much! You give me more time to do whatever I want, instead of having to cope with stuff I don’t want to know.

Though Akismet works perfectly at catching spam, it really needs some improvement. For example, spambots puts additional pressure on the server trying to leave spam comments and I have to customize .htaccess file in order to reject them. Otherwise I have around 500 spam comments in 2 days.

I’ve been using Akismet since about 2006, and it saves me hours a month in dealing with spam. I’m very grateful for the free service, since I run a no-profit personal blog on my own server and time. Thanks, Akismet!

Akismet protects my blog from 80 to over 200 spam comments, every day of the week! I cannot imagine what the state of blogging would be like without it, as blogs would be forced to disable comments, or use comment-limiting registration solutions.

Of course – who wouldn’t love Akismet? I actually labeled it one of the must-have plugins in a recent blog post. I love that it’s preinstalled and has a super-easy setup. It also has caught about 90% of my spam comments (on my other site – not WP Squared – that one’s too new!). I think the 10% that it missed just needed that human factor to weed them out. So…yeah…love it…thanks!

I operate 2 distinct blogs – one multi-user, now over a year old, for fun and the other, only a couple of weeks old, for work. Akismet is absolutely brilliant at weeding out spam comments and has never let one through (loads posted, though) in 14 months. Thank you!

I am using Akismet spam protection for more than 2 years. I’m not a hardcore blogger but even so, Akismet protected my blog from more than 3000 spam comments (as you can see on my akismet widget). It’s perfect! And it is getting better and better with each update release.

Akismet saves my life, work, and ability to sleep at night every day. I think of it as a form of insurance, protecting my blog when I’m not there to prevent evil doers, thieves in the night, and bored twits from spamming my blog walls. I also feel empowered like I’m part of a bigger whole, a team across the world fighting back against the enemy that wastes our time, abuses our resources, and clogs up the pipes of the Internet.

Thank you Akismet Team for the right to blog freely and for letting me help make the web a safer, kinder, and funner place to play.

Am I a fan? YOU BET I AM! While I don’t have a high-traffic site, I still get spammed. Akismet catches well over 99 percent of everything I don’t want to see. False positives are very, very rare, and missed spam even rarer.

Coming up on 3 years and 10,000 spam blocked by Akismet. Don’t run WordPress without it!

I built numerous websites (around 50 now) on WordPress and ALL of them are protected by Akismet. It is a wonderfull plugin that keeps commenters out, for various reasons.

I didn’t want comments on my company’s business site advertising all kinds of malicious links or pr0n, and I sure didn’t want those on the site of our baby daughter, which we use to post pictures and keep family up-to-date about the adventures of our one year old.

Akismet helps me preventing this kind of garbage off my sites by automatically dismissing them and/or informing me about comments.
And the various settings give me a lot of control on how I want spam be taken care of.